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The jury is probably still out on the effectiveness of
social media in improving ICT education and student
recruitment, retention and other outcomes. However, there is
a lot of energy behind exploring social media use for just
those purposes. MPICT is engaged.
MPICT launched its YouTube Channel
youtube.com/mpictcenter on May 27th, 2010. Since then,
MPICT videos have been viewed more than 4,700 times by
almost 2,000 different visitors. Videos include interviews
with business, industry and education relevant to improving
ICT education. There are also many technical presentations
available, mostly from our Winter conferences. Check it out!
MPICT launched its blog site at mpictcenter.blogspot.com/ in
August of 2010 as a community building opportunity for ICT
educators in the MPICT region. Since then, several hundred
postings have been viewed more than 3,000 times, and
momentum is building. 1,000 of those views were last month.
We hope that ICT educators will engage in this environment
to share information they discover in their readings and
experiences that might be valuable to their peers. ICT is a
hard field to keep up with. There are constantly innovations
and changes worth knowing about. We have an incredible
network of subject matter experts among community college
educators in ICT related programs. Let’s network and share,
so we are all better off. If you would like to be a
contributor to MPICT’s blog site, please let us know at
info@mpict.org.
MPICT has had a Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/MPICT for about two years. We have more
than 400 active monthly viewers, and more than 11,000
Facebook newsfeed stories have been viewed in the last year.
We have more than 360 Facebook page fans. Facebook
engagement includes ICT related faculty and other ATE
community members, but it also includes students and members
of the community. Join us!
MPICT is a very active user of CCC Confer. Currently, at
least 17 courses are being offered to students in our region
simultaneously in-person and over the Internet using CCC
Confer. It is powerful to be able to blow the walls out of
the classroom and serve students anywhere, any time. If you
are interested in learning to do this, please contact us at
info@mpict.org.
Archived presentations from MPICT’s 2010 Winter Conference
have been viewed more than 1,500 times so far. Archived
presentations from MPICT’s 2011 Winter Conference are
available free at
http://mpict.org/2011_winter_conference_recordings.html.
MPICT has direct email connections with more than 700
community college ICT educators and dozens of others
interested in improving ICT education in its region through
Constant Contact. We try not to abuse email, but on roughly
a monthly basis we send targeted information by email that
seems to work best that way. Please join that list at
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001Md2lQvja6UASI6NfjngYWQ%3D%3D.
It may not make everyone’s list of social media, but we
would encourage you to check out MPICT’s website at
www.mpict.org. There are
more than 300 pages of content directly related to MPICT’s
efforts, ICT, ICT education, ICT workforce, ICT employment,
and news and events. The site is visited about 30 times a
day. There are links to our other social media sites from
the banner there, and the Currently Featuring section of the
Home Page always has something fresh or of immediate
interest.
We are interested in learning more about what is an
effective use of time and what is not in attracting and
serving students and faculty with social media. If you have
good information on this topic, please let us know.
We hope you will engage with MPICT through these media.
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